Danny Morrison

Daniel Gerard "Danny" Morrison (9 January 1953-) was the Sinn Fein publicity director during The Troubles and an Irish republican activist.

Biography
Daniel Gerard Morrison was born in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland on 9 January 1953 to a Catholic Irish population, coming from a family of Irish republicans. In 1969, he joined the Provisional IRA in response to Ulster Scots riots against the Irish communities of the region, and his talent for writing and publicity led to him becoming Sinn Fein's publicity director (a post in which he served from 1979 to 1990). During the 1981 Irish hunger strike, he served as Bobby Sands' representative during Sands' symbolic run for parliament, and he coined the term "Armalite and ballot box strategy", in which Sinn Fein ran in elections while its Provisional IRA armed wing continued resistance to the British. From 1982 to 1986, he was elected as a Sinn Fein member for Mid-Ulster for the Northern Ireland Assembly. In 1990, he was sentenced to eight years in prison for conspiring to murder an informant within the IRA, but he was released in 1995. He became an activist and writer after the Good Friday Agreement and the end of The Troubles, remaining involved with the republican struggle.